A Feminist Companion to Patristic Literature [Paperback]

The Feminist Companion to Patristic Literature is the twelfth volume in the Feminist Companion to the Bible and Early Christian Literature series. Presenting cutting-edge studies by both established scholars and new voices from diverse cultures and contexts, the series not only displays the range of feminist readings, it offers essential readings for all students of the New Testament and early Christian literature.This volume examines a number of Patristic texts and early christian documents from a feminist perspective including Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria, the Christian Martyr and the Gospel of Thomas. Contributors: Barbara Bowe, Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, Denise Buell, Virginia Burrus, Elizabeth Castelli, Elizabeth Clark, Kathy Gaca, Robin Jensen, Ross S Kraemer, Carolyn Osiek, Carolyn Osiek, Theresa Shaw

Barbara E. Bowe
'Many Women Have Been Empowered through God's Grace': Feminist Contradictions and Curiosities in Clement of Rome

Denise Kimber Buell

Ambiguous Legacy: A Feminist Commentary on Clement of Alexandria's Works

Virginia Burrus

Torture and Travail: Producing the Christian Martyr

Elizabeth Castelli

Virginity and its Meaning for Women's Sexuality in Early Christianity

Elizabeth A. Clark

Ideology, History and the Construction of 'Woman' in Late Ancient Christianity

Kathy L. Gaca

The Pentateuch or Plato: Two Competing Paradigms of Christian Sexual Morality

Robin M. Jensen

Mater Ecclesia and Fons Aeterna: The Church and Her Womb in Ancient Christian Tradition

Ross S. Kraemer

When Is A Text About a Woman a Text About a Woman: The Cases of Aseneth and Perpetua

Carolyn Osiek

The Patronage of Women in Early Christianity

Teresa M. Shaw

The Virgin Charioteer and the Bride ol#+